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Our wild areas are shrinking away. The private forests are being sold off. Vast tracts of farmland, and the woods and hedgerows between that supported so much life, are being swallowed up by greed and the new slash-burn-take mentality that gives us nothing for skuld but deserted concrete tributes to the fleeting appetites of commercialistic society. Our governments are stripping away the national parks and building roads into formerly tractless lands, and there is little untouched land left to set aside anew.

Our own backyards are becoming sanctuaries for the displaced, the new breed of homeless. It is up to us to become their guardians, as we should have been all along, and to take a new approach to how we tend our land. We have the responsibility to provide the basics of shelter to those that come to us for sanctuary, and accepting this as a duty in all that we do, at home and in our interface with the society in which we live, is a basic tenet of our trú. This is true whether we live in cities or forests, and it should be remembered that even the smallest offer of aide or gift of food and water will never be lost in the well of orlog.

Luckily, this (stewardship) can be a very simple matter, although it might take some rearranging and a bit of setting up to get started. Once the foundation is laid, however, this can become a self-sustaining pattern of caretaking that begins again to come naturally and not only supports our wild tenets but enriches our lives and diets as well. The animals, birds and vættir that occupy our land, or come into it during their cycles of travel, have much they can teach us, either as individuals or through their ancestral voices. The local vættir of our land will harken to our interaction, perhaps wake from some long hibernation, and grant us aide in return. So too the plants, who feel our intention, and which interact with us as long as we seek to keep the lines of communication open, and come with offers of aide and promise of guardianship. No one trusts, of any race, those who cannot offer trust in return.

Each season has its own particular patterns and cycles. Each leads into the other, and lends itself to the next. Suggestions are given for each season.

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